In:
Canadian Journal of Sociology, University of Alberta Libraries, Vol. 45, No. 1 ( 2020-03-29), p. 1-22
Abstract:
This paper studies how HIV criminalization is portrayed in the mainstream Canadian press by examining news representations of Trevis Smith. Smith’s case is the most reported case of criminal HIV non-disclosure in Canadian history. Our analysis is based on a corpus of 271 articles written about Smith between 2005 and 2012. Our analysis shows that coverage of Smith’s case is distinct from reportage of other criminal HIV non-disclosure cases because he was a well-known Black athlete playing for the Saskatchewan Roughriders at the time of his criminal charge. We argue that news articles represent Smith as a particular kind of threatening racialized “other” through forms of writing that link crime reporting with sports reporting. Our analysis of headlines and quotation patterns emphasizes how news articles construct Smith as a blameworthy outsider and produce Canada as an imagined white settler nation.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1710-1123
,
0318-6431
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
University of Alberta Libraries
Publication Date:
2020
detail.hit.zdb_id:
194611-0
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2068304-2
SSG:
3,4
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